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One link for the client: requests, documents, review and signature

The firm asks for information, shares documents and gets them signed through the Client Exchange. The client answers in a portal with the firm’s name and branding, and every step each recipient took is recorded in a hash-chained trail.

Who uses it

  • Accountant
  • Manager
  • Client director
  • Client staff

What it does

  • Requests with items — documents, questions, confirmations — sent to client contacts, affiliates or staff, from templates.
  • Reminders and firm-branded e-mails, with sends, deliveries, clicks and portal visits recorded.
  • A document vault with folders, versions and shares by link; every upload and every signed PDF filed in it.
  • E-signing with placed fields, sequential or parallel signers, and a signed PDF with a completion certificate.
  • Client review of draft statements and director sign-off in the portal.
  • What the client still needs to send, worked out from the open requests.

How it works

  1. Send a request or share from the client’s file.
  2. The recipient opens their own link and session, optionally with an e-mailed one-time code.
  3. They upload, answer, review or sign.
  4. Everything lands on the client’s file with its trail.

The controls that protect it

  • One hashed link per recipient, with idle and absolute expiry, renewal and revocation.
  • Uploads are malware-scanned; the record says which scanner ran.
  • The event trail is append-only and hash-chained; the signing certificate is built from it.

What it does not do (yet)

  • E-mail opens are indicative: a mail program that blocks images is not counted.
  • Signatures are simple electronic signatures with a completion certificate, not advanced electronic signatures.

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